A novel of love and espionage · 1974
A Time to Love in Tehran
Before there was a revolution, there was a time to love in Tehran.
Tehran, 1974
A Time to Love in Tehran, CG Fewston’s second novel and fourth book, was published in 2015. It tells of CIA officer John Lockwood and his great love, Leila Bakr, in Iran in the years before the revolution.
Kirkus Reviews called it “a cerebral, fast-paced thriller” in which an American government secret agent must navigate fluid allegiances and murky principles in 1970s Tehran. The review gained more than 10,000 shares.
It is the first of three interconnected novels. A Time to Forget in East Berlin follows in East Germany in 1975–1976. A Time to Remember in Moscow is set in the Soviet Union in 1977–1979. Read as a whole, the trilogy moves from the Garden of Eden, to the Great Flood, to Redemption.
Praise
“Fewston delivers an atmospheric and evocative thriller in which an American government secret agent must navigate fluid allegiances and murky principles in 1970s Tehran… A cerebral, fast-paced thriller.”
Kirkus Reviews
“This novel gives us the excitement of Le Carré and Fleming, but its soul is found next to Márquez and Hemingway. You will be drawn in by the espionage and intrigue. You will stay because of the humanity.”
Darren R. Leo, author of The Trees Beneath Us
“Tehran, 1974—a perilous place at a momentous time, and the cruel poetry of that rendezvous has found its angel in CG Fewston.”
Richard Adams Carey
“A Time to Love in Tehran is a thrilling adventure which takes place in pre-revolutionary Tehran… This book is so much more than a love story. Skillfully paired with a suspenseful tale of espionage, it is a riveting study of humanity.”
Literary Classics
“CG Fewston expertly mixes romance, lies, deceit, corruption and suspense. This page-turning novel will stay with the reader long after the last page is read.”
Kimberly Ann El-Jamal
“Just as Leila’s eyes pulled a suspicious Lockwood into a party in her powerful father’s home, the reader is drawn into an exotic tale of intrigue and danger set in Iran during the waning days of the Shah’s rule.”
R.J. Mirabal
